The Montiel Park Disc Golf Course is a 9-hole course designed for use by
beginning and experienced players alike. The course officially opened
to the public on February 27, 2008 with the 1st Annual San Marcos Ice Bowl
Tournament. The course was added as the second phase of development
for Montiel Park, in the City of San Marcos, California. Funding for
landscaping, disc golf baskets, benches and trash cans was provided by the
City of San Marcos, while the course's tee signs were purchased using funds
donated by local businesses and organizations.

Holes in the standard 9-hole
layout range from 129 to 354 feet in length, with as much as a 30 foot
change in elevation on some holes. There are nine alternate tees
ranging in length from 230 to 450 feet which allow for a unique 18-hole
layout.

Our friendly Monday @ 5pm doubles matches end late in October, but will be
replaced by the Fall/Winter weekend doubles series, which will be
held Saturday mornings at 10am.
All comers are welcome (as long as you have $5 to ante up).

June 15, 2010: 3rd Annual Montiel Ace Race
scheduled for September - Montiel Park will host its 3rd Annual Discraft Ace Race Tournament Sunday
Sept. 12th at
10am. Entry fee is $25, pre-registration is recommended as the field
will be capped. In an ace race tournament, players play 36 holes of
tee shots only, recording aces and metal hits from their tee shots.
The winner is the player who records the most aces with ties being broken by
metal hits. Each player receives two new prototype Discraft discs, a
Discraft hat and a mini (a $55 value). 1st prize for the Ace Race is a
new Discraft golf bag filled with premium-plastic Discraft discs.
Check out Mike Allee's bag - he was last year's winner!

February 15, 2010: Ice Bowl Wrap-up - Many thanks to all who played
and helped out with the 3rd Annual San Marcos Ice Bowl on Saturday. We had
very un-icy weather, with a high of 75 degrees and sunny skies all day. We
surpassed our fundraising goal this year, collecting over $1,100 and a few
hundred pounds of canned food for The Angel's Depot - good going, disc
golfers!

The competition was close - lots of good golf and strategic use of
mulligans led to some low scores. Highlights of the day included Deano
Porter's ace of #5 (it may have been his first throw of the day?), Eddie
Lopez's ace on #1 - which was his first ace ever, and Patrick Paramore's
aces on #2 in the first round and #1 in the second round - his first
tournament aces and good enough to win the portable Innova basket. Luke
Christensen shot a blistering 37 in the first round and cruised to victory
in the Men's Open division. Other division winners were:

Men's Advanced - Danny Zwolenski

Women's Advanced - Laurie Stroh

Men's Intermediate - Nick Newton

Women's Intermediate - Liz Rousseau

Men's Recreational - Mike Henry

Juniors - Sam Maury-Holmes

Danny Z also took away the prize for the most canned food donated, so he
had a pretty good day. Josh U'ren continued his winning Ice Bowl ways - last
year he won the Innova basket for getting an ace, this year he won Disc Golf
Bingo. And the winner of the prize for the lowest PDGA number in attendance
was not #100 John Kirkland - though he was sure it would be - but instead
Scott Dickson took the prize with PDGA #84.

Lots of thanks to the volunteers that helped out:

Monica Watkins, co-TD and logistician extraordinaire; Brian Bobka, for
helping all day long in many ways; Michelle Chambless, Ben Rutherford and
Michael Shaw, for helping out with player check-in; Nick Newton, for helping
us transport all of the tables and chairs to and from Jack's Pond Park; A.J.
Risley, for running the putting contest and providing a few "special"
prizes; Nate Carter, for supplying the sound system; and Ryan Meyer, for
helping with check-in, scorekeeping and schleping tables and chairs back to
Jack's Pond.

Thanks to each of you for giving up your time the day before, energy,
warm-up time, wind-down time, etc. to make this tournament a success!

December 10, 2009: It's that time of year again - time to prepare for the
Ice Bowl!!! - Team Rizbee Productions will be hosting the 3rd
Annual San Marcos Ice Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 13th, 10am tee-off. Last year's
San Marcos Ice Bowl was the event that propelled Nikko Locastro to his win
at the USDGC - will it do the same for you this year? As with previous
years, this Ice Bowl will raise funds and collect canned food for The
Angel's Depot, a food bank for senior citizens that serves North County. We
will also once again be one of the stops on the Golden Sombrero Tour, a
4-event tour where the winner receives a portable basket.

That warm fuzzy feeling that comes with doing something good
for your neighbors in need

I'm still working on details and will have a flyer available soon, both in
paper form at Montiel Park and online. I'm looking for ideas on how we can
keep players from going hungry and thirsty throughout the day...any ideas?
Keep watching this space for more details. And if you'd like to help out
with Team Rizbee, please contact me!

August 10, 2009: Labor Day event scheduled for Montiel - Montiel Park
will be the site for disc golf fun on Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 7, 2009).
The San Diego Aces will be holding a fundraiser for the new disc golf course
on the campus of Cal State University San Marcos. Proceeds from the
sale of "World's Biggest Disc Golf Weekend" discs and tie-dyed t-shirts will
go towards establishment of San Marcos' third disc golf course (and our
first 18-holer). Purchase of a disc and t-shirt player pack ($25) will
include entry in the "WBDGW One-Disc Challenge," an 18-hole tournament where
players must use a 2009 WBDGW disc.

The Aces have signed on as a major sponsor for the CSUSM course and will be
holding a series of tournaments and events to raise $2,500 towards the
purchase of baskets, tee signs, etc. For more information call Allen
Risley at 760-798-2080 or e-mail
rizbee@teamrizbee.com.

March 12, 2009: Long pads getting upgraded - After a bit of waiting
we are finally working on installing the rubber mat pads on the long tees
for holes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. A big thanks to Reese Swinea of Fly18
Disc Golf for his donation of some "gently used" pads from one of his other
courses. This donation will allow us to apply some of the tee pad fund
dollars towards other improvement projects on the course at Montiel Park.
On Saturday, March 7th, after the YDGA clinic (described below) a group of
about a dozen volunteers pitched in to help two install back pads for Hole
#2 and one pad for Hole #6.
A.J. Risley christened the long pad on #2 with a TeeRex hyzer tee shot
that landed right under the basket.

The work party was held after a youth clinic was held, organized by the new
Youth Disc Golf Association. Two scout troops showed up to learn the
finer points of disc golf, and were treated to some instruction and then a
tour around the Montiel Park course. It was a great event and
hopefully the first of many to come.

February 22, 2009: Clark Bartram video -
Clark Bartram shot
this video at Montiel Park last weekend, edited it and put it up on his
web site: www.clarkbartram.com.
He shot it during our regular Saturday morning doubles tournament.
Seth Rushin is interviewed at the start, with a few comments from Dennis
Keane later on. Several players are included in the action shots,
which include a thumber near-ace of Hole #7. BTW, thanks to Dennis for
taking on the responsibility of running doubles on Saturday!

January 7, 2009: 2009 Montiel Ice Bowl is
Saturday, January 17th - The San Diego Aces
and Team Rizbee Productions will once again be hosting the Montiel Park Ice
Bowl tournament, Saturday Jan. 17th @ 10am, to benefit The Angel's Depot, a
local senior citizen food bank. With the tough economy, food banks are in
heavy need, especially for seniors who may be living off of shrinking
retirement accounts. Come help us raise funds and collect canned goods for
this worthwhile charity. Here's a few details:

The
Golden Sombrero Series is made up of four Ice Bowls: Redlands on Jan. 3rd,
Palm Desert on Jan. 10th, San Marcos on Jan. 17th and Sun Valley on Feb.
28th. All four tournaments are raising funds for local food banks or
shelters - great charity causes. Players participating in the series will
collect points at each event, based on the number of players of their gender
that they beat. The respective male and female participants with the most
points after the Sun Valley Ice Bowl will receive the coveted Golden
Sombrero awards, which are guaranteed to be cool to look at and a good way
to shade yourself from the sun. The overall winner will also receive
an Innova Discatcher Traveller portable basket!!!!!!!

The entry form is available on this site - go to the Ice Bowl link in the
navigation bar. Send it in early to secure your spot.
Contact Allen Risley at
rizbee@teamrizbee.com or 760-798-2080 if you have questions.

October5, 2008: Ace Race Wrap-up - The
Discraft Ace Race at Montiel Park was a great success! Forty-three
players came out to help the San Diego Aces raise funds to pay for rubber
tee mats for the alternate tees at the course. Over $400 was raised,
which should be enough to add rubber pads to the six holes that need them.

Jeremiah Price was the hot hand of the day,
recording two aces during one of his 9-hole trips around the modified
Montiel layout, good enough to win a brand new golf bag and 10 discs from
Discraft. Ben Rutherford had the first ace of the day, which was good
enough to hold on for a tie for second place with Danny Zwolenski, who also
had one ace and one metal hit. Max Rumbaugh also recorded an ace to
come in fourth.

Montiel regular Don Vincent walked away with the
Mini Ace Race title - his one ace and one metal hit barely enough to beat
Allison Wylot for the title and $36 mini ace pot. Full results can be
found on the Results page. There are also
lots of pictures of the Ace Race festivities on the
Photo Gallery page.

All players walked away with two brand new
Flex-ESP discs, a cool full-color mini and a Discraft Hat - a $55 value for
their $25 entry fee. Many thanks to the registration crew (Monica,
Curtis, Brian and Katie), Emerald Isle for prizes, players who brought mini
baskets and Discraft for all they provided.

September 17, 2008: Some Pre-Ace Race Details -
As of today there are 23 paid entrants into the Ace Race and we're
expecting a lot of last-minute entries. If you haven't entered, call
Allen quickly at 760-798-2080 to get in. Player's Packs will be
ordered soon and they can't be returned to Discraft, so don't count on there
being many left for day-of sign-ups. If you snooze, you lose

Have you ever slipped and screwed up a tee shot on
the back tees for #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 or #7? Well, this tournament is
being held to raise funds for rubber tee mats for the back tees at Montiel.
Ten players are needed to pay for a tee pad (but the first ten help pay for
park insurance...). The more players we get, the more tee pads we can
buy!

Discraft handles the grand prize, but Emerald Isle
will be providing prizes for the first ace turned in on a scorecard and the
2nd-highest number of Aces or metal hits. There will also be a few
CTP's on some of the longer holes.

Have we mentioned that some of the holes will be
shortened for the Ace Race? In order to generate more aces and level
the playing field, Holes 6, 7, 8 and 9 will have shorter versions for the
tournament. This should also make it easier to hear or see metal hits
on those holes (especially 7, eh?)

We will have a mini-golf course set up - a
Mini-Ace Race, if you will. It will cost $1 to play, with the rules
just like the Ace Race - aces and metal hits only counted. You can
enter and play as many times as you like. The proceeds will be split
50-50 between first place and the tee pad fund. Mini-Disc Golf World
Champion Carl "Beanieman" Renda will be on hand to challenge all comers.
Can you beat the World Champ?

Finally, there will be an Ace Pot at the Ace Race.
Players can buy one share of the Ace Pot for $1 - you can buy as many shares
as you want, but you must buy them before you start your first nine holes.
Each person in the pot who has an ace will get a portion of the pot, based
on the number of shares they have purchased and their number of aces.
25% of the pot will go into the tee pad fund.

Our first Ace Race in San Diego County, possibly
in SoCal!!!!!

August 12, 2008: Montiel Ace Race is a go -
Montiel Park will host a Discraft Ace Race Tournament Sunday Oct. 5th at
10am. Entry fee is $25, pre-registration is recommended as the field
will be capped. In an ace race tournament, players play 36 holes of
tee shots only, recording aces and metal hits from their tee shots.
The winner is the player who records the most aces with ties being broken by
metal hits. Each player receives two new prototype Discraft discs, a
Discraft hat and a mini (a $55 value). The flyer for the tournament is
available here.